Adox Color Implosion… Back in 2016, I tested it a EI 50, 100, 200, and 400 and wrote up a lengthy, rambling report, which concluded with a decision to rate the film at 320 or so in the future. Of course I’d forgotten all about that when I loaded up a roll at the McKinney Photo …
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It’s an FP4+ Party! (and brief review)
Ilford’s FP4+ is the newest version of its excellent, medium speed, cubit grain, panchromatic black & white stock. The first FP4 appeared 10 years before I was born, and the Plus version appeared in 1990. I shot my first roll of it back in 2015, and over the past year and a bit, I’ve taken …
Morning Walk, a brief Agfa Precisa 100 CT review
After some rather disappointing results with Cross Processing the Agfa Precisa 100 CT, I resolved not to shoot the second roll I had until I got some proper chemicals… That day finally came in late 2016, and so I shot my second roll one Saturday morning, on a nice, long walk around the neighborhood, and …
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Ah, Canon Sure Shot 115u, I hardly knew ya
I spotted this pretty little camera in the back of the jewelry case at my local Goodwill a month or so ago, hemmed and hawed for about 10 minutes, bought it, ran 3 rolls through it, then packed it up and sent it off to my EmulsiveSanta recipient last week. It’s not a bad camera …
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Enter the ActionSampler
I’d seen Lomography’s ActionSampler camera before, but was never particularly tempted by it. Then I got Nathan Pearce‘s set of zines and saw the interesting work he does with it, so I started looking. After a little bit of hunting and hesitating, I found a brand new, second version, mislabeled as the “Cyber Sampler” for …
T J Clark – ‘Farewell to an Idea’
I picked T J Clark’s Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism on Richard Pickup’s recommendation , and after reading the first paragraphs of the Introduction, I’m glad I did. Funny, dense, serious, accessible, it’ll require some close, careful reading, an exercise of some mental and rhetorical muscles I haven’t used in awhile, …
Agfa Optima Sensor 535, first rolls
So the Agfa Optima Sensor 535 wasn’t the camera I thought I was buying, wasn’t the camera I wanted, but after two rolls, I’m glad to have it: it’s really a great little camera.